LONDON—On a cold, rainy summer day, the weather gods did not smile upon Eugenie Bouchard. The tennis gods, however, did.

Both Bouchard and Milos Raonic advanced to Wimbledon’s fourth round with easy wins. But Bouchard got an extra bump when Serena Williams, the player the draw would have thrown her against in the round of 16, was upset by a relative unknown.

“It shows all of you who asked me if I’m ready to play Serena in round four, that’s one of the reasons I don’t look far ahead,” Bouchard said, giving the journalists who’d bugged her about that possible matchup (and, to be honest, a potential quarter-final against Maria Sharapova) a kind ticking-off.

“I wouldn’t consider myself deep into Wimbledon at this stage. I’m into the second week, which is great,” she added. “But, you know, I want to go so much further. At the same time, I’m focused on one match at a time.”

Bouchard advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Andrea Petkovic, someone she had never before defeated. Her fourth-round opponent is Alize Cornet, the tournament’s 25th seed, but the only player to have beaten Williams twice this year.

Cornet is so unused to the spotlight that when she walked into the marquee interview room, she had a look one reporter described as “guilty” — but Cornet said it was something else: “It’s just that I’m impressed because it’s the first time I’m coming in this room. That’s it. I’m not used to it.”

Bouchard is — her media availabilities are always well attended by press from around the world. (Questions on Saturday included how she and Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, became pals. The answer? Their agents introduced them.) Bouchard and Cornet have played each other once, in 2013 on clay, a contest she doesn’t think will have much influence on their upcoming tilt: “I don’t know if I’m going to think too much about that match or not.”

On the men’s side, Raonic was paying close attention to a five-set contest between Kei Nishikori, seeded 10th here, and Simone Bolelli, who is currently ranked 132nd in the world. It was halted because of lack of light just after 9 p.m., and will be finished Monday — in yet another Wimbledon tradition, the courts are dark on Middle Sunday.

Raonic was watching that match and seemed unfazed about which man he might face: they both play similar games, he shrugged, and both would be a challenge.

Raonic’s 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), 6-2 win over Lukasz Kubot was something of a slugfest. Both he and Kubot have serves that average more than 190 kilometres an hour, and Raonic, especially, took advantage of that.

“I don’t think there is really a match that I would say to this point, especially in a Grand Slam, that I was able to be as dominant as I was on my serve,” he said. “I only lost nine points on my serve, I think. That definitely makes my life a lot easier and puts pressure on him.”

Originally, the schedule looked as if it would make for a quick day at the office for the Canadians. Both were scheduled for the first match on the small stadium courts — an advantage, because there’s no waiting around for other players to finish. But the weather had other plans for Raonic and Bouchard — and the more than 39,000 people on site Saturday.

They were supposed to start play at 11:30 a.m., but the rain kept falling and the covers stayed on the courts until about 1 p.m. When the referees metaphorically peered at the skies and decided to go ahead, Bouchard was dispatched to Court 3, and Raonic to Court 2.

Bouchard and Petkovic lasted 10 minutes; Raonic and Kubot 13. And when the skies opened, again, everyone stopped the tennis game and began the waiting game. It sounds silly — many of us would love to be told to go inside and relax — but delays are a challenge because the players don’t know when they’re going to be called back on court, and it wreaks havoc on everything from warmup routines to lunch.

“They kept delaying by no more than a half-hour each time today — one time, maybe 45 minutes,” Raonic said. “So by the time you get taped up and everything — and it takes about 45 minutes to do that alone to get ready for a match, so always you have to be on the edge of your feet.

“There was one point where I said today I don’t think there is going to be any play (for a few hours) and I was able to take a nap in the massage room and sort of just stay calm and wait it out.”

Bouchard agreed, and said her focus was just to conserve her energy.

“You try to eat, you know, depending on when you’re going to play, but you never know exactly,” she said. “But the rain is part of the Wimbledon experience. I think we’ve been lucky so far with it. We were bound to get a little bit of rain. You have to have rain to go through Wimbledon.”

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